Dictionary Activities is a fantastic teaching resource which helps students get to know their dictionaries by explaining dictionary features and how to navigate them. The book also covers more complex topics such as collocations, idioms and word building. Dictionary Activities also looks at the use of electronic dictionaries and other non-standard specialized dictionaries such as picture dictionaries. In addition to providing over 90 dictionary activities to use in the language classroom, this book is also invaluable to any teacher who wants to improve their own knowledge of how dictionaries work. Dictionary Activities contains eight chapters which deal with: Confidence and dictionary skills-building activities, vocabulary-building...
Five - Minute Activities is an invaluable source of ideas for language teachers. It is a resource book of over 130 short activities for the language classroom: some are well - tried favourites clearly restated, others are new ideas or variations. The activities are laid out simply in alphabetical order, with sections providing guidance on aims, preparation (if any), and procedure. Sample material, where appropriate, is given in boxes. The contents page and index ensure that you can find any particular activity quickly and easily.
This book is for anyone is interested in the relationship between grammar and vocabulary. The introduction looks at recent developments in corpus linguistics and second language acquisition research, and outlines the important role which chunks play in textual cohesion and in fluency, as well as in grammar acquisition. The practical part of the book provides practitioners with a large number of classroom suggestions and activities for making grammar teaching more lexical, and for making vocabulary practice more grammatical. Activities move from receptive to productive and can be used on their own or to supplement and enhance coursebook content.
A compact, user-friendly reference book addressing many of the kinds of questions about grammar that regularly confront teachers, both novice and experienced, when planning or executing their lessons. A glance at any web-site, discussion forum or social network shared by teachers of English suggests that teachers are constantly asking each other questions related to pedagogical grammar. These may simply be questions about terminology or categorisation (`What`s a clause?`; `Is like a preposition?`), or they may seek to unravel subtle grammatical distinctions (`What`s the difference between for and since?) or explain persistent learner errors (`Why in bed and not in the bed?`). This book is designed to fulfil this basic, everyday need - as...
This new edition offers clear guidance on the practicalities of the Internet as a resource and classroom tool and a range of practical activities grouped by themes and levels.
Working with Images contains over 75 practical teaching ideas for the language classroom. Activities involve the use of both low-tech and high-tech images and are suitable for a very wide variety of teaching contexts: young learners and adults; specialised and general English; richly- or minimally-equipped classrooms. Activities can be used in any order, at any point in a course. In addition, the design of the activities allows teachers to adapt and apply the ideas to other topics. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a bank of images, ready for immediate classroom use.
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2013
